then i give you virginia, "washington post" 52% for barack obama, 44% for mitt romney. and national weather servithat' state where we see the president pull ahead. that's got to be pretterrifying. >> the tragedy of the situation, here is a man who is a competent, capable manager, who has been good at everything, a successful governor. the author of the first universal health care coverage provision in the nation. a person who has demonstrated through his charity and personal life he has a good and generous heart. and he has been pushed and pushed by an angry base into sounding not like the person he is, but into sounding like some class warrior in reverse. and that statement he made to that fund-raiser, that was something that expressed not just his personal idiosyncratic view. what he's saying there, that the daily talk of talk radio and the washington think tanks and "wall street journal" editorial page. all of the people who hated him, tried to stop him from being the nominee. and at this -- he's got the job. he's got the nomination. and he needs to talk to america,